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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble

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